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Almost Daily Briefing, March 31, 2020

Post Date:03/31/2020 10:57 AM

The Almost Daily Briefing

Published news articles from local, regional, and national media on topics of interest to the #LoveLafayette Community

COVID-19 UPDATE

This update was provided to the City of Lafayette by the California League of Cities and by way of news reports. Read the latest coronavirus information and find resources for Lafayette residents and businesses on the City’s COVID-19 Webpage: http://bit.ly/LafayetteCoronavirusInfo.

Governor Newsom announced during his new daily press conference an executive order to relax rules on staffing ratios and "scope-of-practice" limits, among other requirements to help secure more medical and health care professional to address surge needs. Notes are attached from this press conference. At tomorrow’s 12pm Governor press conference (available at @CAgovernor Twitter page and California Governor Facebook page), Governor Newsom will announce the launch of an initiative to help older Californians stay connected while they stay home during the COVID-19 outbreak.

President Trump extended the federal government’s social distancing guidelines through April 30. Last week, Trump had suggested that the guidelines could sunset by Easter Sunday, April 13, which health experts had warned against.

Governments under 500,000 may receive the funding from their State, but that it will be at the State's discretion.

Before COVID-19, California let 1 in 4 of its public health labs close -But in the two decades leading up to the COVID-19 outbreak, 11 of California’s public health labs designed for the focused testing Newsom wants closed their doors. California now relies on 29 county and city public health labs, along with the California State Laboratory in Richmond, to serve 40 million people. (Sacramento Bee)

SF looks to limit construction as virus restrictions are extended -While San Francisco was a leader in imposing the country’s earliest and strictest stay-at-home orders to combat the spread of the coronavirus, the city has been much more lenient than places like New York and Washington, D.C., when it comes to allowing construction to go forward. That may soon change. (SF Chronicle)

Amid COVID-19, big construction projects still moving forward -Both the first residential project in Sacramento's Railyards development and the 8-1/2 story residential and retail project 17 Central in Midtown Sacramento are still on track for summer starts, according to their developers. (Sacramento Business Journal)

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